Secular people often make giving a solitary activity at the end of the year, one that feels like a sacrifice. That’s the wrong way to think about giving back. We learned a lot from churches and temples and the way they turn giving into an enjoyable, uplifting social activity. Our profile of a master pastor at a mega-church, Bill Hybels, reveals some of the magic he employs. We all are social animals and when we do things with a group of people we like, the activity becomes more fun.

So form a book club and engage in a few volunteer or giving activities together—or link your book club to Book Clubs for Change, bookclubs4change.org. Choose a need in your community or an area of the world that you all care about. Then choose a topic and an organization you might work with. Or maybe consider an on-location trip to the area and meet some of the people you want to help?

Or join a chapter of Dining for Women, which is one of the secular organizations that borrows from the religious notion of fellowship and joyous giving for a cause. DFW has guests bring a pot luck dish to a host's home and then they all donate the money they would spend at a restaurant to a chosen cause empowering women worldwide. Some groups have a subcommittee screen a list of finalists and the group votes on a final selection. In A Path Appears, we list some other great organizations—there’s even one called Beer for Books—that make giving a social and fun occasion.

I didn't know your abuser had been reported to the police, chrissy. My disdain is for victims and mothers who keep familial abuse a secret from police for their entire lives. They take our only evidence against their abusers to the grave.

She told you.
Several times.
You verbally abused her, anyhow.
You either lack such reading comprehension that you need to revisit first grade, or in your self-righteous outrage and hurry to make her another example of one of your tangential "points", you ignored it to further re-open wounds with your constant condescension and ingrained nastiness.

YOU ugly old nasty gossip queens are LIARS about me. I NEVER said my abusers were Catholic priests you lying old bitties. And what dies it matter what Christian abused me. It were freaking Christian leaders. Got it? Further proof that ALL. religions are being led by idiots like the Pope or Jessie Jackyasome.

Funny thing about the internet DUMBO....what you say here stays here!!!! Check the archives...oh say like...Jan 2011. You told raven about it. I just read it. And THATS the only Clue youre gonna GET. Research it for yourself why doncha!

phil
@abc...I have indeed posted under different s/n's, most notably Ahkmed the terror guy. This is not to fool anyone, just to illustrate my point(s) You may recall that I did publicly apologize, not for what Ahkmed said, but for my posing. And I promised never to do it again. And as if abc is really you. Why attack me personally? Attack what I post, if you can.

Introducing Afrileaks A new service launching today hopes to safely connect whistleblowers with investigative journalists, encouraging a ‘new culture of accountability and justice’ across the continent.

Oh, another trip down that lane: another spin on the vicious dog story, the one he said happened within the last few years: note the word decades ago.

phil
Another amusing story about firetrucks...One day a few decades ago, my youngest brother ran into the house yelling "Hey Philip, there's a pit-bull attacking a little girl outside !" So I slipped on my boots and ran outside wearing nothing but my boxer shorts. I kicked the dog as hard as I could to get it off the girl. The dog turned on me, and latched on to my left knee. (i still have the scars) Long story short, within a matter of minutes there were 3 squad cars, an Emergency vehicle, and a firetruck! on the scene. (the dog catchers arrived at last) Now, why was a firetuck called out on a man vs. dog situation? In case sparks flew from the dog's mouth and started a fire? You rarely see with your own eyes a firetruck actually fighting a fire.(other than on TV) You do see them parked in front of apartments and homes where there are no fires, where the 911 call was for a drug-overdose most commonly. Why is that?

The NSA/CIA are not just operating on US citizens. Boko Haram in Nigeria, for example, is a covert CIA operation keeping Nigerians who complain about Nigeria’s oil profits flowing westward down. Shutting them up as it were. Africa is being stolen from. Afrileaks will prove to you just exactly who the thieves are. And then you can decide which side you are on. The side of Right or on the side of wrongdoing.

A trip down the memory lane involving one old dried up hag, a half-decent looking woman and a Mexican pool boy. The Memoirs of Donna Banas. On Snapfish account she deleted and now will go to the grave keeping it secret. Among other things.

Lololol and i keep thinkin how he keeps trashin Bill Clinton over and over and lookie here....same damn thing!!! So ok...now ACOURSE im thinkin...he trashes ppl who take medication...i wonder...hmmm see where im goin with this?? Now how bout them food stamps? And hmmm oh yea...are you faking disability too??? OMG! You ARE arent you??? ACOURSE you are! FRAUD! FRAUD! FRAUD!

Im gonna toss this out here to the great deciever. Its a truce, of sorts. Admit you lied. Stop BASHING us at every turn. And this can all stay here! The choice is yours. If you decide not too...well be prepared...because I, for one, am not going to take one more second of your verbal abuse!

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